‘Sopranos’ star Joe Pantoliano swears by ‘the three Ms’ to improve his mental health: Masturbation, medication and meditation

Joe Pantoliano, aka “Joey Pants,” has a marvelous mnemonic for intelligence health.

“You request 3 things — masturbation, medicine and meditation,” he exclusively told Page Six astatine nan Tribeca Festival 30th day premiere of “Bound.”

The “Sopranos” alum further explained that he takes a “wonderful supplement,” doesn’t do meditation and “my woman [Nancy Sheppard] takes attraction of [the masturbation].”

Instead of medication, Pantoliano regularly takes walks, explaining that “when I went to McLean Hospital, nan encephalon hospital, they told maine that a brisk 15-minute locomotion is balanced to for illustration 90 milligrams of Prozac, truthful I locomotion each day.”

Pantoliano added that for years he suffered from addictions.

“Success,” was 1 of his addictions, he explained, “and past activity and past alcohol.”

“Finding things that make this emotion spell away. I thought if I could go successful, past this emotion that was successful nan pit of my psyche would spell away.”

Instead, Pantoliano said that he “crashed and burned, didn’t die, and I conjecture discovered my shortcomings; they weren’t unspeakable defects, they were, you know, conscionable intelligence illness.”

The “Matrix” star, 74, has agelong been unfastened astir his intelligence wellness struggles.

Last year, he told Page Six that he suffered from slump for adjacent to a decade earlier his test and would self-medicate pinch “seven deadly symptoms.”

“Alcohol, what was available, women, you know, risky behavior, enactment first and past inquire questions second,” he explained.

Pantoliano, who was diagnosed pinch objective slump successful 2007 and has since written 2 books astir his mental wellness issues, founded an statement successful 2009 called “No Kidding, Me Too!” which intends to region nan stigma surrounding intelligence health.

Meanwhile, nan Emmy victor confessed to being somewhat gobsmacked to beryllium celebrating “Bound” each these years aft its release.

“I had nary thought that I’d beryllium talking to anybody 30 years later. I did not expect to beryllium alive, you know,” he shared. “The truth that this movie is being celebrated. I had nary thought that I would beryllium fortunate enough.

“I didn’t cognize really talented nan Wachowskis were,” he said, referring to writer/director siblings Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski. “You know, it was a bully part, and I wanted to person a bully portion successful a movie, and I was hoping that it would beryllium good, truthful it was very naive of me.”

The noir thriller besides stars Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly and Chris Meloni.